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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Dustcover has some wear. Small gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In 1982 a woman of thirty doing just fine in Washington D.C. let me know how things are in her precincts: “I can’t relate to World War Two. It’s in schoolbook texts that’s all. Battles that were won battles that were lost. Or costume dramas you see on TV. It’s just a story in the past. It’s so distant so abstract. I don’t get myself up in a bunch about it.” It appears that the disremembrance of World War Two is as disturbingly profound as the forgettery of the Great Depression: World War Two an event that changed the psyche as well as the face of the United States and of the world. The memory of the rifleman is what this book is about; and of his sudden comrades thrown hugger-mugger together; and of those men women and children on the home front who knew or did not know what the shouting was all about; and of occasional actors from other worlds accidentally encountered; and of lives lost and bucks found. And of a moment in history as recalled by an ex-corporal “when buddies felt they were more important were better men who amounted to more than they do now. It’s a precious memory ” (MP)